County annual report · FIPS 35051
2016 Sierra County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Sierra County, NM went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 46 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 2314th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sierra County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 25, 2016 23:00 | May 25, 2016 23:30 | 30m | 34 | 17 |
| 2 | March 26, 2016 19:30 | March 26, 2016 21:30 | 2h | 31 | 11 |
| 3 | August 11, 2016 14:00 | August 11, 2016 14:15 | 15m | 15 | 4 |
| 4 | July 22, 2016 15:45 | July 22, 2016 16:45 | 1h | 6 | 2 |
| 5 | September 22, 2016 02:00 | September 22, 2016 03:30 | 1h 30m | 4 | 2 |
| 6 | May 6, 2016 13:45 | May 6, 2016 15:15 | 1h 30m | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | May 6, 2016 04:15 | May 6, 2016 05:15 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | May 13, 2016 15:45 | May 13, 2016 16:45 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | June 18, 2016 22:15 | June 19, 2016 01:15 | 3h | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | August 3, 2016 14:00 | August 3, 2016 15:00 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Sierra County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso Electric Co | 2016 | 67 min | 0.91 | 61 min | 0.86 |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sierra Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Truth or Consequences - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of New Mexico's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,974 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Sierra County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sierra County, NM annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/new-mexico/sierra-county